The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 24

Toad groans: «What did I want to go strutting about the country for, singing conceited songs... instead of hiding till nightfall and slipping home quietly by back ways!»

Who acts: Toad · What happens: groan, want, go, strut, sing, slip · To what, where: conceited songs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 groans	nsubj
2	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 groans	punct
5	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 want	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 groans	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	strutting	strut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 go	xcomp
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strutting	obl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 singing	mark
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
17	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 strutting	advcl
18	conceited	conceit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 songs	amod
19	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 singing	obj
20	...	...	PUNCT	_	23 hiding	punct
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	23 hiding	mark
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	parataxis
24	till	till	ADP	_	25 nightfall	case
25	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hiding	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 slipping	cc
27	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hiding	conj
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 slipping	advmod
29	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	27 slipping	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 ways	case
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ways	compound
32	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 slipping	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 groans	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 groans	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: express
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=wh, act=express, indirect=1, polarity=neg, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	groan	present	Toad			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	past · do-support	Toad			tree rules
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Toad not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	strut in a quote	gerund	Toad not said here		about the country	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory
5	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund	Toad not said here	conceited songs		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	slip in a quote	gerund	Toad not said here		by back ways; home, quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:24.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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